Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 13th of January, 2026, and it's been quite the week indeed! Let's dive right into it!

• Nobody, and I mean nobody, asked. So I put together a video on how to use Spring WS to build SOAP-based services in 2026. Hey, SOAP may be legacy but the legacy endures in a lot of places and there's no reason you can't modernize those systems and services to use Spring Boot 4, GraalVM, and OAuth, as I show in this video.
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring Security 7
• Spring gRPC 1.0.1 is available now
• I love this blog from Embabel creator Rod Johnson: RAG pipelines are the past, agentic is the future
• I know this doesn't have anything to do with Spring, per se, but I find it …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I have the privilege of sitting down and talking to the legendary Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security, Spring Session, and the amazing Testjars project.

Hi, Spring fans, to the first installment of This Week in Spring in the new year and, roughly, the fifteenth anniversary edition of this series! I've been writing these blogs since the first week of January of 2011, and I am proud to say that I haven't (so far) missed a single week! I've always published it on Tuesday (with some fuzziness around whose Tuesday, as I tend to bounce around the globe a fair bit). I want to thank, as I always do, Spring cofounder Keith Donald for this wonderful and simple idea. He dropped it in my lap and said to give it a shot, and I've never looked back. He's no…

In this episode, I talk with Mark Thomas, the legendary and highly prolific committer to Apache Tomcat. Happy New Year!

Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it? It's already the 30th of December! I celebrated Christmas with my family in Los Angeles, then we jumped on a flight headed for Southeast Asia to ring in the New Year with more friends and family. I'm sitting at a café in the sweltering city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as I write this - looking back fondly at the last week of, and the entire year of, 2025.

That's right! It's time for my yearly tradition of retroactive year-end navel‑gazing and analysis; it's time for This Year in Spring, where we review the good, the great, and the amazing: the top five best…

Hi Spring fans, and happy holidays! I'm delighted to be joined again on this episode by my friend and fellow harbinger of doom (in the best possible way), Nate Schutta — co-author of the wonderful book Foundations of Software Engineering!

Happy holidays, everyone! The year may be winding down, but the Spring ecosystem continues unabated. We’re now a few weeks past the generational Spring Boot 4.0 release in November, and there have been tons of releases (and patches) since then. There’s also equal excitement reflected in posts from the community, so we’ve got a lot to dig into this week. So, without further ado…

• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the legendary Spring cofounder Juergen Hoeller
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/18/a-bootiful-podcast-juergen-hoeller
• Next-level Kotlin support in Spring Boot 4
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/18/next-level-kotlin-support-in-spring-boot-4
• Spring Shell 4.0.0-RC1 available now
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/19/spring-shell-4-0-0-rc1-released
• Spring Modulith 2.0.1, 1.4.6, and 1.3.12 released
  https://spring.io/blog/2025/12/20/spring-modulith-2-0-1-1-4-6-and-1-3-12-released
• Spring Tools 5 released
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary cofounder of Spring itself, Juergen Hoeller, about the awesome new Spring Framework 7 release.

Happy holidays, one and all!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it’s been! We’ve got around nine shopping days ’til Christmas, and the New Year is almost here! Things are moving so quickly and the Spring community is no exception! Let's dive into this week's wonderful roundup!

• This is a super interesting application of a design pattern with Spring AI’s dynamic tool selection, described by Christian Tzolov.
• Spring Tools 5.0 released.
• Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is out!
• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring legend Rossen Stoyanchev about API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more.
• Spring AI 2.0.0-M1 available now.
• Spring Framework 7.0.2 available now.
• Spring Framework 6.2.15 available now.
• Spring for GraphQL 1.3.7, 1.4.4, and 2.0.1 released.
• Spring Web Services 4.0.17 available now.
• Spring Security 2025-12 released…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment I talk to the legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more!